Addison refers to this as the actual device of an "Eastern King;" Gregorie speaks of it as the conception of some ingenious essayist, who considered it worthy of "the meditation of a Prince." The question still remains, who is the writer referred to? Let me ask, has this erased passage been restored in any edition of Addison's Works? If not, where is the MS. of his Essay on the Imagination?

In the work of an eccentric American writer, viz. Owen's Key to the Geology of the Globe (Philadelphia, 1857), at p. 240, occurs an interesting notice of Geographical Gardens actually laid out. I am sorry I have not the book, that I might give the passage; especially as, to the best of my remembrance, it is about the only intelligible passage in the whole volume. EIRIONNACH.

THOMAS GILBERT, Esq. (3rd S. v. 134, 263.)In the chancel of the little church of Petersham is a tablet, having this inscription:

"Juxta hunc locum situm est quicquid mortale fuit THOME GILBERT armigeri, ex generosâ et perantiquâ familiâ oriundi, ab annis teneris Schola Etonensis alum

nus. Poetices sitim ibi primo sentiebat, quam ex fontibus utriusque Academiæ postea feliciter explevit. Nec ab his liberalis animi oblectamentis se unquam avelli patiens. Ipse patrio sermone carmina composuit; Quibus nec Græcæ nec Romanæ Gratiæ defuerunt. Quid vero hæc? Vir fuit, si quis alius, Integer, Probus, severe justus, Fidus, ad amicos, ad omnes, ad Deum.

"Sine promissis, sire dissimulatione, sine Superstitione, Firmus, Benevolus, Pius-Obiit anno salutis 1766, ætatis suæ 54.

ΘΝΗΤΟΣ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΒΙΟΝ ΔΗΝ ΕΝΔΙΚΟΣ ΟΥΚ ΕΤΙ ΤΟΥΤΟ ΘΝΗΤΟΝ ΦΗΣ ΑΡΕΤΑΙ ΚΡΕΙΣΣΟΝΕΣ ΕΙΣΙ ΜΟΡΟΥ.”

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On the floor is a stone, inscribed: "Beneath this stone is interred ye body of TнO. GILBERT, Esq., who departed this life November ye 23rd, 1766, in ye 54th year of his age.

"As also ANN, wife of the above Tho. Gilbert, Esq., who died June the 15th, 1801, aged 75 years. This is inscribed by a person truly grateful for the many acts of generosity and benevolence received from both."

I am not able to give from other sources any account of Mr. Gilbert, nor to assert that he is the person inquired after. But from the fact of his having studied at both Universities, and the date of the B.A. degree (p. 263), when the subject of the epitaph would have been about twenty-one years of age, lead to a conclusion which is confirmed by his seeking the patronage of the Earl of Bute, then a neighbour and all powerful

at Kew; and who, no doubt, procured the permission, referred to in the second letter, for Mr. Gilbert to lay his volume before the Earl's pupil, then become George III.

I do not find Mr. Gilbert's name among the permanent inhabitants at Petersham. From his early death, we may presume his health to have been delicate and as the letter of May 22, 1759, says that the place of his residence that summer was very uncertain, it is probable that he may, as many since, have chosen Petersham for the peculiar mildness of its air.

The epitaph may be seen in Manning and Bray's Surrey, vol. i. p. 442. W. Č.

KOHL (3rd S. iv. 166, 239, 402.) — There is no doubt that kohl, or rather kuhl, is antimony, or rather sulphuret of antimony, a blackish mineral, reduced to powder, and used as a pigment for tinging the eyelids by native women in the east, who believe that it adds to their beauty: it is also considered to be a preventive of excessive discharge of rheum from the eyes. The word is Arabic,, but the Persian name,, is that by which it is always called in Hindostan : I write from personal knowledge and observation. A. S. A.

MARTIN (3rd S. v. 154, 222.) — I am obliged by the information that your correspondent, MR. BAXTER, has been so kind as to give in answer to my inquiry. From Morant's History of Essex, to which he refers me, I learn that Matthew Martin, of Alresford Hall, was, or was supposed to be, descended from the Martins of Saffron Walden. May I hope, either through MR. BAXTER'S further kindness, or that of some other correspondent, to learn something of this elder branch of the family? And in particular I should be glad to ascertain whether any member of it was ever Lord Mayor of London? P. S. C.

CUSTOMS IN SCOTLAND: FIG-ONE (3rd S. v. 153.) I had the opportunity, a few days ago, of mentioning this matter to a near relative of the late Lord Langdale. The reply I received was, "Fig-one! oh, there must be some blunder; it was fig-sue, well enough known in the north, where our family came from. I remember" (my informant went on) "my uncle expressing more than once his detestation of that abominable figsue; he used to laugh and say that when he was a boy he begged that his mother would let him have the figs by themselves; they were good enough." J. FITZ-R.

SIR JOHN CONINGSBY (3rd S. v. 280.)—What is the authority for the statement contained in the inquiry of G. J. T., that Sir John Coningsby was slain in the barons' wars at Chesterfield, 1266? No such knight is mentioned by Dr. Pegge, in his account of the battle of Chesterfield. W. ST.

GARIBALDI.-Can you find room for the following reply to the query, "Why do the English so admire Garibaldi ?" which is asked abroad, and may be thus answered at home?

"When Garibaldi ceased his high command,

And sheathed his sword-that sword a bright and keen one

Nought in his pocket put he but his hand;

A mighty hand-and, nobler still, a clean one."

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This third volume of Mr. Dyce's scholarlike edition of Shakspeare contains, As You Like It; The Taming of the Shrew; All's Well that Ends Well; Twelfth Night; and The Winter's Tale. It exhibits the same thorough knowledge of his subject as the preceding, but is characterised by a somewhat bolder introduction of amendments of the text. Thus, in All's Well that Ends Well, when the Steward tells the Countess "Madam, the care I have had to even your content"- which Johnson had satisfactorily explained, "to act up to your desires," and seems so well paralleled by the passage in Cymbeline — but we'll even All that good time will give us,”

Mr. Dyce would read, "earn your content." "Win your content," is another suggestion; but both are alike uncalled for. But the edition is a valuable one, and does credit to Mr. Dyce.

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England, iv. 134.) And when Dr. Abell, her confessor, was removed, the difficulty was to find one agreeable both to Henry and his divorced wife. "The Bishop of Llandaff," writes the king's agent, "will do less harm than any other to tarry and be her ghostly father." The reason was, that the old Spaniard was timid and quiet, and had implored the queen to yield to expediency. (Strickland, iv. 135.) It is not recorded whether he held any previous ecclesiastical preferment in England, till raised to the episcopate, through the influence of his patroness and countrywoman, Queen Katharine, on the death of Miles Salley, Bishop of Llandaff, in Wales, in December, 1516. He was, accordingly, provided to that see by Pope Leo X. on February 11, 1517, and consecrated March 8 following, either in St. Paul's Church, London (Reg. Warham, fol. 20, in Godwin, De Præsul. edit. Richardson, p. 611; and Le Neve's Fasti, edit. Hardy, p. 250), or at the church of the Dominicans or "Blackfriars" there (Reg. Sacr. Angl. by Stubbs, p. 76, on authority of" Reg. Warham. and Booth"), by Charles Boothe, LL.D., Bishop of Hereford, assisted by John Young, S.T.P., Bishop of Callipolis, in Thrace (Archdeacon of London, and Suffragan in that diocese), and Francis (?), Bishop of Castoria, in Prævalitana (Achrida). The sees of the two last prelates were in partibus infidelium, but of "Fras. Castoriensis" I can ascertain no trace in any list of suffragan bishops. The new Bishop of Llandaff received restitution of the temporalities of his see, on April 27, 1517 (Pat. 9 Hen. VIII, p. 1, m. 14), and after an episcopate of twenty years, he resigned the bishopric in February, 1537 (Pat. 28 Hen. VIII., p. 2, m. 2), and a congé d'elire issued on March 2, 1537, "vice Bishop George, resigned" (ibid.), a successor being consecrated to the vacant see on the 25th of that month. The aged D'Athequa probably returned to his native land, as the state of ecclesiastical affairs in England must have become distasteful to him, and the death of Queen Katharine had severed his last tie in that country. My query is, what became of him afterwards, and where or when did he die? Any additional information on the subject will be acceptable.

"saying and doings" of these districts. One thing struck me as most remarkable, and that was, when any popular custom, tradition, or, I may say superstition existed, there was not the slightest difference of opinion between the educated and the most humble or illiterate persons all held fast to the same belief, no matter how absurd. I speak of the laity generally, but do not include the clergy of any sect or denomination. For want of a better designation, I give the following jots under the head of "folk lore," although the title may be queried.

When a cat scratches the legs of a table or chair, it is a sign of rain; but if "tabby" transfers her nails to the stump of a tree, it foretells a storm. If this latter be found correct, we have a sort of feline Fitzroy before the "Admiral" was taught to prophesy the " coming storm." The appearance of a rainbow (the Iris) at night or evening, is a sign of fine weather; in the morning it is for storm, and at midday storm and rain; and if in autumn, thunder and whirlwinds may be expected to follow. The quacking of ducks in the morning is a sure sign of rain, as is also the chattering of a collection of sparrows in the evening. Should a robin redbreast enter a house, hard weather, snow, frost, &c., may be expected to follow soon. The robin is held in great veneration by every one, and it would be considered a serious offence to kill one willingly. It is almost a domestic bird in the places I mention, and has privileges not accorded to other bipinnated tenants of the grove or hedge.

It foretells a storm to see pigs running about the farm-yard with straws in their mouths; and to hear dogs crying, which they do most horribly sometimes, notifies a death. On this point there is also some curious folk lore about that fabled myth, the "banshee;" but as I have already written an account of "a hunt after a banshee," I shall say no more on that subject.

On the lower or upright portion of the frame of almost every house door- - the chief entrance-may be found nailed an old horseshoe, or portion of one, picked up on some neighbouring road. This is said to be very lucky, and prevents fires and fairies from visiting the house. It is considered particularly unfortunate for a farmer or his wife if they should, on a May morning, meet a hare, as that animal is said to take away the milk from the cows, should the master or mistress of the "lowing herd" cross the path of pussy on the morning in question.

I shall continue this subject, but for the present must save your valuable space.

Liverpool.

S. REDMOND.